My answer: the diamondback terrapin. Anyone who has held this charismatic creature would agree it’s hard to find a more captivating turtle. Terrapins, the only U.S. turtle that lives exclusively ...

The Vivarium Animal Lab at Stockton University has led a diamondback terrapin rescue program since 1989. There, baby terrapins can grow strong before being released into the wild. In addition ...

The Center has also pushed for measures in North Carolina, which passed a BRD requirement in terrapin habitat along its coast. In 2024 we led 20 ally groups in petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

On a recent bright morning in Holgate, 5-year-old Josie Davenport cupped her hands together and giggled as a teeny, tiny northern diamondback terrapin wriggled around. The baby turtle — only a ...

The Diamondback terrapin, so-called for the geometric pattern atop its shell and best known as the beloved mascot of the University of Maryland, has lost enough of its population in the past ...

For 10 million years, diamondback terrapin turtles have come ashore in the salt bays and marshes each spring to lay their eggs. But their numbers have dwindled over the past century due to ...